The State of UX in 2019

We have seen quite a lot at the UX Collective this year. After curating 2,239 links and sharing them with 264,016 designers around the world, we have isolated a few key trends in what our industry is writing, talking, and thinking about.

Our annual trends report is a holistic analysis of UX Design as a discipline: the tools we use, the methods we apply every day, the technologies we design around, the career challenges we experience, and how our community is responsible for what’s happening in the world around us — the one that we, consciously or not, have helped design.

This is the fourth year in a row that we’re publishing our trends report (which has us wondering — at what point exactly does something become a tradition?). The response we received last year was so overwhelmingly positive it inspired us to go even further in our exploration. We embarked upon this year’s report knowing that we must be even more critical of our work, with a deeper awareness of our responsibility as designers and an understanding of our broader impact on society.